Thursday, June 6, 2024

80th Anniversary Of D-Day June 6, 1944

 




On an early June morning eighty years ago, many Americans gave
their lives so that Americans today could live in freedom.

The courage and sacrifice of the servicemen of the U.S. Armed Forces, who
 stormed the beaches and scaled the cliffs of northern France on that morning,
marked the dawn of liberation across war-torn, Nazi-occupied Europe.

  May the valiant stand they took against the forces of human and spiritual
darkness of this world be an inspiration to us in these perilous times today.



"The Jaws of Death"
An official U.S. Coast Guard Photograph by CPHOM Robert F. Sargent, USCG.
A Coast Guard-manned LCVP from the U.S.S. Samuel Chase disembarks U.S. troops on the
morning of 6 June 1944 at Omaha Beach.


 


On the 6th of June Nineteen forty four

A mighty force gathered on distant shore

Six thousand ships filled with brave men

Crossed the channel to evil that awaited them.


The world waited with baited breath

As many young men faced certain death

Onto the beaches...wave after wave

Life and limb the price they willingly paid.


From every nation where men were free

They fought and they died for liberty

They could not fail though odds were great

That many would fall at this hell's gate.


They stormed those beaches in a rain of fire

Scaling cliffs of death inching higher and higher

Though many would fall never reaching the top

But despite that cost they did not stop.


Now what power could drive these noble men

To fight when odds said they could not win

Such courage must come from a higher power

That emboldens them to fight, and never cower.


In a time like this all you can do is pray

That God hears and his angels lead the way

For surely miracles answered many a plea

On those bloody beaches of Normandy.


So today we live with a freedom bought

With a price that was paid by a victory fought.

By men with names now written on stone,

And unknown heroes who never came home.


"D-Day"
A poem by
Roy Davenport





Normandy American Cemetery And Memorial
Normandy, France
(June 2012)
Photograph by Peter K. Burian
Courtesy/Wikipedia





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